The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 60

“But,” said Dorothy, after a moment’s thought, “Aunt Em has told me that the witches were all dead—years and years ago.”

Who acts: Dorothy, thought, witches, moment · What happens: say, tell, be, think · To what, where: Aunt, Dorothy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, thought, witches, moment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	12 thought	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 moment	case
12	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
15	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj:pass
16	Em	Em	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Aunt	appos
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 thought	acl:relcl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 dead	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 witches	det
22	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dead	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dead	cop
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 dead	advmod
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 told	advcl
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 years	punct
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ago	obl:unmarked
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 years	cc
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 years	conj
30	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy			after a moment's thought	ago property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive	a moment's thought not said here	Aunt	Dorothy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
3	is in a quote	past	the witches				all, dead property	tree rules
4	think		a moment					nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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